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QS44
Preferred Label
allied health professional
professionnel de la santé associéCategory label
Allied health professionalsProfessionnels de la santé associésQ-Code supplementary keywords
Allied Health PersonnelParamedical practitionersparamedicsQ-Code scope note
health service providers, other than medical practitioners and nurses, who provide care for and treatment of patients, and who usually practice various forms of diagnostics, prevention, health education, and treatment. Examples include physiotherapists, podiatrists, and psychologists. (Woncadic) dispensateurs de services de santé, autres que les médecins et les infirmières, qui fournissent soins et traitement des patients, et qui pratiquent habituellement diverses formes de diagnostic, la prévention, l'éducation sanitaire et des traitements. Par exemple les physiothérapeutes, les podologues et psychologues (Woncadic)Q-Code conceptual content
Emergency Medical Dispatcher ; Professionals responsible for relaying calls for the deployment of EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.(MeSH 2017)Allied Health Personnel ; Health care workers specially trained and licensed to assist and support the work of health professionals. Often used synonymously with paramedical personnel, the term generally refers to all health care workers who perform tasks which must otherwise be performed by a physician or other health professional.(MeSH)ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ; health service providers other than medical practitioners and nurses who provide care for and treatment of patients usually practicing various forms of diagnostics, prevention, health education, and treatment. Examples include physiotherapists, podiatrists, and psychologists.(Woncadic)Allied health professionals ; the segment of the workforce that delivers services involving the identification, evaluation and prevention of diseases and disorders; dietary and nutrition services; and rehabilitation and health systems management. • Allied health professionals include dental hygienists, diagnostic medical sonographers, dietitians, medical technologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, radiographers, respiratory therapists, and speech language pathologists.(AHPA)Audiologists ; Professionals skilled at diagnostic testing of hearing, HEARING IMPAIRMENT, and CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT by non-medical or non-surgical means. (MeSH 2017)Counselors ; Professionals trained in providing information, guidance, and recommendations to individual clients or families to support their decision making and development of coping skills. (MeSH 2017)Occupational Therapists ; Professionals trained to help individuals develop or regain skills needed to achieve independence in their lives. (MeSH 2017)Paramedical practitioners ; provide advisory, diagnostic, curative and preventive medical services more limited in scope and complexity than those carried out by medical doctors. They work independently or with limited supervision of medical doctors, either in the field or in institutions, and may work mainly with diseases or disorders common in their region, or apply specific types of treatment. (ISCO 08 2240)UMLS CUI
C0002122
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Chin WY, Lam CL, Lo SV. Quality of care of nurse-led and allied health personnel-led primary care clinics. Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi / Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. 2011; 17(3): 217-30. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21636870
Harris MJ, Haines A. The potential contribution of community health workers to improving health outcomes in UK primary care. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2012; 105(8): 330-5. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22907550
Hooker RS, Everett CM. The contributions of physician assistants in primary care systems. Health & social care in the community. 2012; 20(1): 20-31. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21851446
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